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“There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.”
― Willa Sibert Cather, O Pioneers!

“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”
― Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”
― Karen Swallow Prior

“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking